14-3-15
Section 14-3-15 Officers and guards - Pursuit and arrest of escaped convicts. Every officer
and guard, regularly sworn, shall have power to pursue and arrest any escaped convict in any
county of this state without a warrant. He may use such force or means as may be required
under the circumstances to prevent the convict's escape by flight or to overcome his resistance.
He shall have the same authority as a sheriff to summon persons to assist in making such arrest
or to protect such convict from any violence after arrest. (Code 1886, §4580; Code 1896,
§4453; Code 1907, §6505; Code 1923, §3604; Code 1940, T. 45, §22; Acts 1951, No. 365,
p. 660.)...
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15-9-39
Section 15-9-39 Confinement of prisoner. The officer or person executing a Governor's warrant
of arrest under this division or the agent of the demanding state to whom the prisoner may
have been delivered may confine the prisoner in the jail of any county or city through which
he may pass when necessary. The keeper of such jail must receive and safely keep the prisoner
until the person having charge of him is ready to proceed on his route, such person being
chargeable with the expense of keeping. (Acts 1931, No. 482, p. 559; Code 1940, T. 15, §59.)...

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9-11-396
Section 9-11-396 Penalties for violations of provisions of article, etc.; powers of law enforcement
officers, etc., as to enforcement of article, etc.; custody and disposition of equipment,
etc., seized in connection with violations of article, etc.; disposition of moneys arising
from fines and forfeitures. (a) Any person who violates a provision of this article or any
regulation promulgated pursuant to this article or of the Marine Mammal Protection Act of
1972 or regulation promulgated thereunder or who fails to procure or violates the terms of
any permit issued pursuant thereto shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than $50.00 nor
more than $500.00 or be imprisoned not more than six months or both. (b) Any officer employed
and authorized by the commissioner or any law enforcement officer of the state or of any municipality
or county within the state shall have authority to conduct searches as provided by law and
to execute a warrant to search for and seize any equipment,...
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13A-12-56
Section 13A-12-56 Arrest of occupants of house. If it appears from the affidavit of the complainant
or of any other witness that he produces what persons are the proprietors of or the occupants
of the house, part of a house or room hereinabove described, the warrant shall order the arrest
of such persons by name, but if such proprietors or occupants are unknown, it may be so stated
in the affidavits and warrants, and, upon bringing the said persons who are arrested under
said warrant before the court, a supplemental affidavit may be made against them by the complainant
or any officer executing the warrant charging them with the offense or felony of which they
appear to be guilty under the provisions of this division. (Acts 1909, No. 193, p. 183; Code
1923, §4288; Code 1940, T. 14, §300; Code 1975, §13-7-97.)...
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15-10-10
Section 15-10-10 Where warrant to be executed; endorsement when executed in different county.
Except as provided in Section 15-10-11, a warrant or writ of arrest may be executed in the
county in which it was issued, unless the defendant is in another county. When the defendant
is in another county, it may be executed therein by any law enforcement officer having the
warrant or writ. The law enforcement officer shall summon the assistance of local law enforcement
if possible to assist in making the arrest and only then may exercise the same authority as
the officer possesses in his or her own county or jurisdiction. (Code 1852, §436; Code 1867,
§3985; Code 1876, §4655; Code 1886, §4270; Code 1896, §5219; Code 1907, §6278; Code 1923,
§3272; Code 1940, T. 15, §163; Act 2006-547, §1.)...
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15-10-60
Section 15-10-60 Definition; procedure. A "bench warrant" is one issued by a judge
for the arrest of one accused of a crime by a grand jury. Every officer is bound to issue
it within his jurisdiction, and every person so arrested must be committed to jail until bail
is tendered. Any judicial officer or the sheriff of the county where the accusation was found
may receive the bail, fix the amount of the bond and approve the sureties, unless it is a
case that is bailable only before some particular officer. (Code 1907, §7862; Code 1923,
§5597; Code 1940, T. 15, §184.)...
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15-9-41
Section 15-9-41 Arrest without warrant - When authorized; persons authorized to make arrest;
appearance of accused before judge. The arrest of a person may be lawfully made also by an
officer or a private citizen without a warrant upon reasonable information that the accused
stands charged with a crime punishable by death or life imprisonment in the courts of another
state. When so arrested, the accused must be taken before a district or circuit court judge
with all practicable speed and complaint must be made against him under oath setting forth
the ground for the arrest as in Section 15-9-40, and thereafter his answer shall be heard
as if he had been arrested on a warrant. (Acts 1931, No. 482, p. 559; Code 1940, T. 15, §61.)...

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22-50-21
Section 22-50-21 Police officers for state mental health facilities or hospitals. The State
Mental Health Officer may appoint or employ one or more suitable persons to act as police
officers to arrest intruders, trespassers, and persons guilty of improper or disorderly conduct
on the property of state mental health facilities or hospitals. Such officers shall be charged
with all the duties and invested with all the powers of police officers and may eject trespassers
from the hospital grounds, buildings, or lands or arrest them and may, without warrant, arrest
any person guilty of abuse of a patient, of a misdemeanor or disorderly conduct, of stealing
or injuring property or other offenses committed on the lands or premises of the hospitals
and take such person before a district court judge or other officer charged with trial of
such offenders, before whom, upon proper affidavit charging the offense, the person so arrested
shall be tried and, if found guilty, convicted as in cases of...
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22-1-7
Section 22-1-7 Procedure when county health officer, etc., resisted. If, in the attempt to
perform any duty enjoined by any public health law of the State of Alabama or rule or regulation
of the State Board of Health, the health or quarantine officer of a county, or his duly authorized
representative, shall be forcibly resisted or threatened with forceful resistance, such health
officer shall, after conference with the county board of health, if found necessary, make
affidavit before any judge of a circuit court, district court, municipal court or the judge
of probate of the municipality or county where such resistance occurs or is threatened, whereupon
the officer before whom said affidavit has been made shall forthwith issue his warrant directed
to the sheriff or to any bonded constable of said county, commanding said sheriff or constable
to remove or abate, under the direction of said health officer, said insanitary condition,
or source of infection or offensive or indecent material...
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28-4-257
Section 28-4-257 Search warrant for seizure of prohibited liquors and beverages, etc., generally
- Form. The warrant may be in substantially the form prescribed by law for other search warrants
and must, except as otherwise specified in this article, be executed in the manner and with
the authority of the officer as prescribed by law in respect to other search warrants. (Acts
1909, No. 191, p. 63; Acts 1915, No. 2, p. 8; Code 1923, §4747; Code 1940, T. 29, §216.)...

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